Example sentences for: surmounted

How can you use “surmounted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • With confidence and principle, he argues, Americans can create "a world of new possibilities, guided by goodness," in which all obstacles can be surmounted.

  • Amazingly, though, this seemingly insurmountable problem can be surmounted.

  • Dick Brass, Microsoft's vice president for technology development, says that the technical hurdles of screen quality and battery life have been largely surmounted.

  • A neo-Gothic work by Enric Sagnier, the church is surmounted by a monumental figure of Christ, one of the city’s landmarks.

  • Michelangelo wanted the tomb surmounted by the Pietà, now in the cathedral museum (see page 61), but the Florentines almost didn’t get even his body — they had to smuggle it out of Rome.


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